top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-05-15

Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020)

https://turriate.com/articles/modern-javascript-everything-you-missed-over-10-years

5 years ago

1256 upvotes – 728 comments

China lands rover on Mars

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57122914

5 years ago

581 upvotes – 314 comments

The Return of Fancy Tools

https://macwright.com/2021/03/16/return-of-fancy-tools.html

5 years ago

447 upvotes – 216 comments

TSMC looks to double down on U.S. chip factories as talks in Europe falter

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-tsmc-looks-double-down-us-chip-factories-talks-europe-falter-2021-05-14/

5 years ago

437 upvotes – 486 comments

The True Size of Africa (2015)

http://kai.sub.blue/en/africa.html

5 years ago

355 upvotes – 219 comments

TikTok Remix Culture

https://twitter.com/Iameaschris/status/1391207396979007488

5 years ago

327 upvotes – 247 comments

Things you can’t do in Rust (and what to do instead)

https://blog.logrocket.com/what-you-cant-do-in-rust-and-what-to-do-instead/

5 years ago

303 upvotes – 279 comments

Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished (2019)

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-50435014

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 191 comments

Facebook faces ‘devastating’ EU-to-US data transfer ban

https://aje.io/fftg5

5 years ago

267 upvotes – 148 comments

Design structured diagrams, built to increase your team's trust in your docs

https://icepanel.io/

5 years ago

255 upvotes – 80 comments

Bibliogram – Open-source front-end for Instagram

https://bibliogram.art

5 years ago

248 upvotes – 56 comments

Offline-First PWA for Plotly Visualization of CSV via SQLite

https://github.com/lana-k/sqliteviz

5 years ago

246 upvotes – 28 comments

Nim 2.0 thoughts

https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/7983

5 years ago

235 upvotes – 145 comments

Ask HN: What lessons did you learn from your best or worst colleagues?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27161901

5 years ago

231 upvotes – 258 comments

The stack monoid revisited

https://raphlinus.github.io/gpu/2021/05/13/stack-monoid-revisited.html

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 28 comments

“Bush Hid the Facts”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_hid_the_facts

5 years ago

206 upvotes – 33 comments

Anal oxygen administration may save lives

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/05/14/anal-oxygen-administration-may-save-lives

5 years ago

201 upvotes – 149 comments

ML model can classify sex from retinal photograph, clinicians can't

https://rdcu.be/ckFPK

5 years ago

194 upvotes – 192 comments

Transition to React Native

https://blog.coinbase.com/announcing-coinbases-successful-transition-to-react-native-af4c591df971

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 217 comments

Universal basic income to be tested in Wales

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-57120354

5 years ago

184 upvotes – 322 comments

Making Your Own Tools

https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/044

5 years ago

165 upvotes – 31 comments

Six Years of Rust

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/05/15/six-years-of-rust.html

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 37 comments

Use the WiFi Chip on RaspberryPi/Broadcom as Software-Defined Radio (SDR)

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/mobisys2018_nexmon_software_defined_radio

5 years ago

159 upvotes – 30 comments

The Midnight Pub

https://midnight.pub/

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 29 comments

Parsix: Parse Don't Validate

https://github.com/parsix/parsix

5 years ago

153 upvotes – 107 comments

Great books on classic video games

https://bossfightbooks.com

5 years ago

152 upvotes – 61 comments

JPL's Design for a Clockwork Rover to Explore Venus (2017)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/space-robots/jpl-design-for-a-clockwork-rover-to-explore-venus

5 years ago

149 upvotes – 47 comments

Java JDK 1.0 (1996)

https://github.com/ufuu/JDK10

5 years ago

148 upvotes – 45 comments

Watches from the Soviet Union

https://www.rbth.com/longreads/soviet-watches/

5 years ago

145 upvotes – 64 comments

Faster web fonts

https://iainbean.com/posts/2021/5-steps-to-faster-web-fonts/

5 years ago

132 upvotes – 81 comments

Was cancer less likely in a pre-industrial world?

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/cancer-less-likely-preindustrial-world

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 165 comments

I was an astrologer – here's how it really works (2019)

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/06/i-was-an-astrologer-how-it-works-psychics

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 111 comments

Chiropractors are bullshit

https://theoutline.com/post/1617/chiropractors-are-bullshit

5 years ago

124 upvotes – 133 comments

Statement: AP 'horrified' by Israeli attack on its office

https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-f595d0ea0a7e21a4e4974ae55e00024d

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 88 comments

MicroFPGA – A coming revolution in small electronics (2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME_e06ApxJA

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 56 comments

Google Says Everything at Stadia Is Fine, as the Water Reaches Their Noses

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2021/05/google-says-everything-at-stadia-is-fine-as-the-water-reaches-their-noses/

5 years ago

105 upvotes – 212 comments

Reasons some languages are harder to learn

https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2021/05/08/the-real-reasons-some-languages-are-harder-to-learn

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 208 comments

TIL: Tcl-inspired command language on top of D

https://til-lang.github.io/til/

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 25 comments

In the search to stall aging, biotech startups are out for blood

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/in-search-to-stall-aging-biotech-startups-are-out-for-blood-180977728/

5 years ago

101 upvotes – 101 comments

Old electric cars are a raw material of the future

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/05/13/old-electric-cars-are-a-raw-material-of-the-future

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 107 comments

MIMO Radar Antenna Arrays

https://hforsten.com/mimo-radar-antenna-arrays.html

5 years ago

98 upvotes – 7 comments

Gigabyte Brix Pro: A Compact PC for Basic Computing Needs

https://www.overclockers.com/gigabyte-brix-pro-a-compact-pc-for-basic-computing-needs/

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 82 comments

Joe Ligon: America's 'longest juvenile lifer' on 68 years in prison

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57022924

5 years ago

94 upvotes – 115 comments

The Freenode resignation FAQ, or: “what the fuck is going on?”

https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af497409

5 years ago

92 upvotes – 8 comments

The Covid lab-leak theory goes mainstream

https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-lab-leak-conspiracy-theory-research-fa0b8315-1406-45b9-b63b-1c6c4407f7bd.html

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 62 comments

Developing MLB’s Automated Ball/Strike System

https://technology.mlblogs.com/developing-mlbs-automated-ball-strike-system-abs-d4f499deff31

5 years ago

88 upvotes – 54 comments

Multiplying Integers Using Fourier Transforms [pdf]

http://www.cs.rug.nl/~ando/pdfs/Ando_Emerencia_multiplying_huge_integers_using_fourier_transforms_paper.pdf

5 years ago

84 upvotes – 21 comments

Commodore’s Assemblers: Part 1: MOS Cross-Assembler

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1520

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 5 comments

Facebook’s Secret Rules on Word “Zionist” Impede Criticism of Israel

https://theintercept.com/2021/05/14/facebook-israel-zionist-moderation/

5 years ago

79 upvotes – 43 comments

Out of Memory Error – The RAM Shortage of 1988 (2016)

https://tedium.co/2016/11/24/1988-ram-shortage-history/

5 years ago

78 upvotes – 36 comments

Oxide: The Essence of Rust (2020)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00982

5 years ago

76 upvotes – 13 comments
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